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Leon Kass [1939-0] American

Rank: 101
Educator, Scientist

Leon Richard Kass is an American physician, scientist, educator, and public intellectual, best known as proponent of liberal education via the "Great Books," as an opponent of human cloning, life extension and euthanasia, as a critic of certain areas of technological progress and embryo research, and for his controversial tenure as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005.

Fear, Happiness, Respect, Science

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If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.		101
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.		102
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.		103
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.		104
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.	Happiness	105
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.		106
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.		107
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.		108
There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.	Fear	109
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.		110
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.	Science	111
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.		112
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.		113
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.		114
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.		115
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.		116
The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.		117
We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.		118
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.		119
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.		120
I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.	Respect	121
I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.		122
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.		123
One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.		124
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.		125
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.		126
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.		201
As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.		202
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.		203
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.		204
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.		205
Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.		206
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.		207
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.		208
Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.		209
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.		210
Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.		211
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.		212
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.		213
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.		214
My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.		215
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?		216
The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.		217
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.		218
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.		219
We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.		220
We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.		221
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.		222
What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?		223

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